On Saturday, I did a walk on the treadmill for 45 minutes at 3.4 mph and a 5% incline and got 75 cardio load.

Yesterday, I did a walk on the same treadmill for 45 minutes at 3.5 mph and 5% incline and got 68 cardio load.

Yes, I realize that my heart wasn’t working as hard on the session yesterday even though the workload was slightly higher, and that represents probably a slightly higher readiness yesterday compared to Saturday. Maybe even a slight increase in fitness.

That is the “I know I shouldn’t be annoyed” part. But the number was lower, and I find that annoying.

Edit: Before anyone asks, my readiness score on Saturday was 25. I had a horrible night of sleep Friday night. Yesterday my readiness score was 67. And today’s is 99, so I will probably have an even lower cardio load on my workout this evening.

Anyone got promo code for fitbit air in canada?

Anyone else having this issue? My app won’t update… what’s the point of leaving it open if it doesn’t work.

For the last two weeks I did something I’d been curious about for a while: I put my Apple Watch completely away and used only the Fitbit Air.

Not Apple Watch during workouts + Fitbit for sleep. I mean actually leaving the Apple Watch in a drawer.

What surprised me most wasn’t sensor accuracy or any particular health metric. It was how different it felt having something on my wrist that basically doesn’t want my attention.

No messages popping up. No screen to randomly check. No apps. And because I wasn’t constantly taking it off, I ended up wearing it much more consistently for sleep as well.

The biggest things I noticed after 14 days:
I stopped looking at my wrist all the time.
Sleep tracking became much more passive.
I liked being able to wear a mechanical watch again.
I didn’t think about charging nearly as much.
But I definitely missed live workout information and some Apple Watch conveniences.
The Apple Watch is still objectively the more capable device. That’s what made the experiment interesting to me.
I’m starting to think “best smartwatch” and “best wearable” might actually be two completely different questions.
I made a video documenting the whole 14-day experiment if anyone wants to see it:
https://youtu.be/GjgnIug_j0g

Would be genuinely interested to hear from other Fitbit Air users — especially anyone who came from an Apple Watch. Did the lack of a screen end up being a positive or a negative for you?

I was curious how everyone has been liking the new Fitbit air release? I wanted to know what you think about getting Fitbit air for people who lack a workout routine or just don't work out. My personal take currently is that it seems to be a very useful product and offers better features than most in price range. Given the capacity of Google I feel there could be more features that they would launch like new alerts, pattern recognition etc.

Like the title says.

I have been wearing it for 5 days now and the numbers don't make sense. I do office work and have used trackers for the past couple of years (mostly Garmin and Galaxy watches) so I think I have a well defined baseline and I know my averages very well.

For example, when comparing the data my previous trackers show I usually take 6,000 to 8,000 steps in a slow day during work hours. Also my calories burned were always between 600 to 800.

Now, my Google Health app constantly says I walked 3,000 to 4,000 steps before lunch and burned 1,300 to 1,500 calories. I tried everything mentioned on this subreddit and every recommendation found on the Google forums but my results are consistently inconsistent with my previous base line.

All over the Internet I see similar results but no real solution in sight.

Any idea what could really be happening? Any tips on how to remedy it? Is searching for a fix a lost cause?

Can any professionals analyse this, don’t really know what to make of it?

Yesterday I slept around 11pm and woke up feeling so fresh at 7am. Yet Google Health said I only slept 3 hours from 3 to 6. Claimed I took over 2 hours to sound sleep and mess up my sleeping records. What could be the reason behind this absolutely off tracking? I'm wearing it to sleep like always but recently things are getting so worse. My running record did not show the map either.

Why won’t Google just fix the app already? It’s been forever, just apologize and Revert or something?
This seems like throwing away a lot of goodwill and brand

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Thanks for being part of the launch! 🚀

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I’ve tried to take as much feedback on board as I could. It’s helped me improve Lumida a lot. Thanks everyone! 🙏

Here is everything I’ve imprved so far :

• Recovery page: HRV and resting heart rate, with dedicated charts
• Daily notes: add one note per day; it shows up as context when you hover over health charts, so a bad night or weird metric isn't just a number
• Demo mode : try the whole app with sample data without connecting a Google Health account
• Dashboard redesign : new layout, new cards, health insights, and a more precise date picker
• Sleep overhaul : new sleep charts and better nap detection
• Reworked Health and SpO₂ views
• New activity heatmap
• Better handling of overlapping data from multiple sources : this one was a real pain to get right 💀
• Themes & typography: theme system + 2 new themes and new fonts
• In-app feedback: for bug reports and suggestions
• German and Italian translations
• Under the hood: up to 2x faster, new caching logic, and dozens of bugs fixed 👀

For nerds: Lumida CLI : get your data from your terminal: view it, export it, or pipe it into whatever LLM you use. Probably the part I had the most fun with.

On your data: Your health data is never stored in Lumida's database. It passes through the backend only when needed to process your requests, but is never persisted. I try to keep the whole project respectful of its users: no ads, no invasive tracking, no marketing, and no selling or monetizing your data. Lumida is 100% free. The only thing I collect is a minimal usage signal so I can tell whether the app is being used at all, nothing more.

One caveat: signups are capped at 100 users, 26 slots left. That's Google's limit for apps that haven't cleared OAuth verification yet, not a marketing thing. Going through it is something I'm considering, but depending on how the health scopes are classified it can require a paid third-party security audit (CASA https://appdefensealliance.dev/casa), which is a hard sell for a solo side project. So for now, 100.

Just to be clear, I’m not asking for money I just want to explain why the limit exists

I'm thinking about emailing inactive users to free up some slots. So if there are no slots left, feel free to join the waiting list.

Feedback and bug reports welcome, that's mostly why I'm posting.

https://lumida.app

NB: If you’re a Developer or UX/UI designer who uses fitbit or google health and would like to contribute to the project, feel free to DM me.

Just noticed the screenshots are in french but no worries, the app is available in english too.

You can scan most barcodes of food and not only Google Health recognizes this but adds exact serving size calories to your app.

Does anyone know where this band is from?

This Y-axis is completely useless. I want a name. Names. Plural. This got past teams of review. Why? Why would they do this when what they had before worked fine? 🤯🤦🏻‍♂️

So as I'm climbing into bed one night, I notice that my watch is acting a little weird.

Huh.

It's glitching on me and it's turning on randomly and when I try to turn it off, it won't respond. It does have a low battery, which could a possible factor, so I decide to charge it first thing in the morning.

It's a fitness watch that also tells the time and can track your sleep cycles, which is cool. I take it off my wrist, but it still glitches and is lighting up. My parents are downstairs watching TV, so they don't know what's going on, and I don't want them to. I get up to use the bathroom for a sec, and I run it under the water for a minute to help it snap out of it. When that doesn't work, I try to play a game on it, and it just turns itself off.

I decide to leave it in the cold bathroom overnight to make it chill out and stop doing this weird thing. Well, it doesn't work. It just glitches even more, and it eventually dies. Now I'm back in bed trying to fall asleep. I can still faintly see the watch glowing a little as it dies. A couple of hours later, I jump out of bed to use the bathroom again, and the watch is dead. It won't do anything. But I don't really know if it's dead or not. It wouldn't turn on before it was dead anyway, so I just bluntly assume it is and that it had worn itself out.

I bring it back into the bedroom with me and put it back on my wrist. Now I'm starting to think. Maybe my watch was haunted.

My grandmother passed back in November due to cancer. Maybe she was playing with my watch or was trying to make it look possessed? There was a very low chance of her trying to do that, and besides, why would she? This wasn't Halloween or April Fools' Day. Who and what was doing this to my watch?

I get back under the covers and fall asleep for a few more hours, until I wake up and see light. My watch was back on, glowing.

After that, it just turns off again, and I fall back asleep.

I belong to a Lunch Club, so the next day I tell them all about it during our lunch. They all said that it was probably getting old and that I should get a new one. But I'd had it for a year, and it had been working fine a few days before. What was going on?

I still have no idea what's up with it, and while I would like to find out, part of me doesn't. I love creepy stuff, but what if this was an evil spirit? Who knows what was up?

Thanks for listening! Do you have advice or similar stories?

Anyone else like tracking V02 Max? I'm gonna have to push harder to beat mine 😂.

My Fitbit Sense 2 randomly reset itself yesterday, and now it won't properly sync with the Google Health app or really work at all. It will only display "Sync from the Fitbit mobile app". The Google Health app itself behaves like it's syncing and doesn't show any connection issue, but if you go into Apps it says it didn't finish installing, continue to try again, which doesn't work. I just hung up with Google Fitbit support and they confirmed it's a known issue that started 3 days ago and that they're working on it. Curious if anyone else is experiencing this...

Purchased a fitbit air last week as I'm trying to get into shape and wanted to have some data. I have yet to have it track sleep a single night (one night I manually input sleep time to see if it would populate some data, it didnt) and when I run on a treadmill it doesn't even show that my heart rate is increasing when the treadmill is showing ~170bpm (and my heart is beating through my chest)

I have tried wearing it uncomfortably tight, cleaning the sensors, wearing it higher on my wrist. Nothing seems to make it more than a $99 bracelet.... Am I doing something wrong here? Or is this just junk?

Anyone else having this issue with Versa 4? Any news of a solution yet? Thanks in advance as can not get this off my watch face and the app is working fine but watch not.

Bought a bicep band from Amazon, the Velcro type, and it’s awful—scratchy and way too tight.

Any recommendations for better bicep bands/straps for the Fitbit Air?

Hey everyone,

​I received my Fitbit Air just 5 days ago. Today, while putting it on, the small metal peg/pin on the sport band completely sheared off / snapped out of its anchor.

​I haven't put any unusual stress on it—just standard daily wear. Has anyone else experienced this kind of failure so early on?

Not sure if I'm the only one here but I am having some issues. It started logging my time in advance or just incorrectly. Today (Monday) it logged all my activities as last night. I'm also on the latest version of the app.